Another Old Favourite In A New Dress, Perhaps A Little
more dis- guised than we might wish, is Far-famed Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. (Hogg.) Still there are readers who will welcome the fishermen, genies, viziers......
King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table, By
Henry Frith (Routledge and Sons), is a modernisation, suited to the spelling and, we may add, to the manners of our own times. We do not know that it is better done than other......
Tales Published By The Society Foe The Promotion Of...
KNOWLEDGE.—Paths in the Great Waters. By E. A. Hoare, M.A.—This is a story of the colonisation of Virginia. Mr. Hoare mixes together, after the manner of his craft, real and......
We Have Received The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe, By...
Defoe. Newly edited after the original editions. (T. Fisher "Unwin.) —The editor, using the initials "8. R. B.," gives in an introduction an account of Defoe, which is brief and......
Its Illustrations, With Their Quaint Outlines And The...
their colouring. Some of them are familiar designs. "Carlo Malatesta taken Prisoner" is from a well-known picture, and there is the 4 ' Brides of Venice." But most will be as......
Dr. Stoughton Very Seasonably Publishes A "new And...
of his Homes and Haunts of Luther. (Religious Tract Society.)—The additions consist chiefly of biographical details, col- lected. by recent research. Among the illustrations,......
Log Cabin To White House," Has Now Attempted A More
difficult sub- ject, more difficult because it has less of the attraction of novelty, in the "boyhood and manhood" of the first President of the United States. Bowes, Everett,......
Old World And The New, Roberts Brace And Christopher...
and Walter Raleigh ; and in more recent days, Sir John Franklin, and Michael Faraday, and Abraham Lincoln are among the heroes whom she celebrates. We need not inquire whether......
Sunday Magazine, Volume For 1883; And Little Snowflakes,...
Christmas Number for Children.—This magazine scarcely does itself justice in adopting this name. We mean that it is much more than a book for what is called Sunday reading, and......
With Much Pains, And Skilfully Employed. Round The Figure Of
Charlemagne—the Charlemagne of legend, not of history—are grouped the knightly figures of whom Roland is the most picturesque. Then there are Ogier the Dane, and Oliver of......
The Ocean Wave, By Henry Stewart (hogg), Consists Of Naval
narratives, tales of adventure and of discovery, of peace and of war. The volume begins with Prince Henry of Portugal, and goes on to speak of the great discoverers of the......
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